A new sign by the 1st tee of Grafarholt golfcourse in Reykjavík

The big 18 hole golfcourses in Reykjavík and surrounding towns have now opened their gates to golf anxious golfers, who are basically starved for a round of golf after a long and hard winter here in Iceland.

Grafarholt golfcourse in Reykjavík belonging to Iceland´s oldest golfclub (founded in 1935); the Golfclub of Reykjavík (GR) openened this week, to be exact on Labor Day, May 1st.

Members of the Club got the honor to play the first round and the golfcourse is only open to members these first days of May.

The „Daly´s" og Golfclub Reykjavík (GR). Photo: Golf 1.

Golf 1 was present when Iceland´s oldest and probably most revered golfcourse, Grafarholt opened and shot a few photos a.o. of some of the more exotic members, great fans of John Daly (see the photo above).

What caught the eye, where new signs here and there around the golfcourse, probably contributions by some of GR´s largest sponsors here in Iceland: Eimskip (Iceland´s biggest shipping company) and EuroCard.

Eimskip is also sponsoring a series of tournaments where the best golfers in Iceland compete the so called „Eimskipsmótaröðin” or the „Eimskip series”

When you come to Iceland and play Grafarholt golfcourse, which you should absolutely do, you will not miss the new sign on the 1. tee.  There it says in Icelandic: „Meðalhögglengd kylfinga á Eimskipsmótaröðinni með driver er 270 metra.”

You probably understood that, didn´t you?

Just in case you didn´t let me translate that for you, it says: „The average drivingdistance of a golfer on the Eimskip series with driver is 270 meters (295 yards).”

You´ll probably know now what is written below, well just in case, it says: „Meðalhögglengd kylfinga á PGA mótaröðinni með driver er 295 metra.”

or

„The average drivingdistance of a golfer on the PGA Tour with driver is 295 meters (323 yards).”

The point: „The difference isn´t that great!”